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President - Lori Adelfio
Where
do I begin? I guess I'll begin at the beginning. In August of 2000,
my sister, Christine, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age
of 35 years old. I will never forget, days after the lumpectomy,
receiving the call from my sister saying "It's cancer". I felt as
though someone just pulled the rug out from under my life. I
responded with, "Ok, so how do we fight this?" because there was no
other option other than fighting it. I have often thought many
times, as I look back on those months at the beginning of all of
this, that perhaps my sister had a strength that had never been
shown to anyone before; including herself. I hung up the phone and
I cried so hard, I lost ability to tell my husband what my sister
had told me. All that was running through my head was "Oh my God,
my sister has cancer. She is my 35 year old sister with a husband
and two little girls and she has breast cancer." It scared me. It
scared me because the only other experience I've ever had with
breast cancer was with my friend Michele's mother, Susan. I
remember Susan as a kind and wonderful woman with a terrific sense
of humor who seemed as though her mastectomy didn't faze her. I'm
sure it did, but she never let on. She was my friend's mom. She was
my friend's really COOL mom who was a beautiful spirit on this
earth. She succumbed to the disease in October 30, 1984 and became
a beautiful spirit not of this earth. It was 22.5 years ago when
the Komen Foundation was only in it's infantcy and there was really
no such thin as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Vice President -
Christine Resnick
Treasurer - May
David
Special Events
Coordinator - John David
Our Stories
From The Breast Cancer 3 Day
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slideshows of The Breast Cancer 3 Day:
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